Precision lies within the bone of consciousness. When we finally see it, it is already an open fracture.
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We tend to think of “things” and “nothing,” as matter and space, but there is also “Thing” and “no-such-thing,” making “no-such-thing here” and “space” … relative to the point of expectation. In cognition, a reaction to a thing is not no-thing; the reaction depends upon a human apparatus, and including the apparatus is crucial to reconstructing reality from the fragments available.
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The answer is easy, getting past timid questioning, impossible. We prefer to think of the problem as getting past “frightening” questions, timidly.
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I stare at the hour hand, and it clearly does not move, but I have a solid faith that it will move, and along with it, this mood will pass, and another will be here. I do not need to see the path. I only need to bide my time, divert myself, or (and why not?) stare down the Devil himself.
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Advice on the future is like advice on sex. Why ask or advise an intricate wax figurine on how it should go about melting down into a warm gob? It will have plenty of questions for itself in the recollection, all of them previously irrelevant.
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Reality is Truth that stuns. Truth is reality that dulls that pain.
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I tried so hard over the decades to correct my inherited thinking procedure, and now I can’t bear the realization that they are the stupidest people who dominate my mind at its base.
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When you object to a man’s use of the word, “God” you criticize his native tongue; of the word, “atheism,” his dissidence.
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The truths of most value to us are simple to understand but not easy to climb under.
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We too easily confuse outcomes from alternating our viewpoints with conceptual “syntheses,” because they often string together the same words.
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The Will stands upright, and rarely gives any credit to the gravity required.
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The best camouflage dons the prejudices of others.
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Arrogance is ignorance of ignorance; righteous humility; ignorance of arrogance.
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Too many are ill-rewarded for their humility. With that pat on the back for their the self-deprecation, they slip over their obligation to themselves.
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